Atom String Quartet is one of the most intriguing string quartets in the world and one of the best jazz performers in Poland. The band combines the capacities of a string quartet with a broadly understood improvisation. In their compositions, apart from jazz, you will hear inspirations coming from Polish folklore, music from various regions of the world, as well as contemporary and classical music.
The quartet was established in 2010 in Warsaw of violin players: Dawid Lubowicz and Mateusz Smoczyński, viola player Michał Zaborski, and cello player Krzysztof Lenczowski. All musicians have thorough classical education and are graduates of the Warsaw musical university. All of them compose and successfully carry out their own solo projects. Since the day they won the Grand Prix of the 13th Jazz Festival (Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa) in 2011, the band has appeared on the greatest Polish and world musical stages.
The quartet recorded seven original albums: FADE IN, PLACES, AtomSPHERE, SEIFERT, PENDERECKI, ESSENCE, including two (FADE IN and PLACES) awarded by the Polish phonographic industry with the Fryderyk statutes.
In 2023 Atom String Quartet signed an exclusive contract with the international phonographic studio Warner Bross, as a result of which it published a 2-record album called UNIVERSUM, including 4 string quartets made of several parts and composed by each of the musicians of the band. The album had its premiere in January 2024.
In the season 2017/2018, Atom String Quartet was an artist resident of the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic Orchestra in Szczecin.
In March 2021, Atom String Quartet played Testament of Max Richter together with pianist Hania Rani. The composition, ordered by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, was written and dedicated to artists as a tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki, who died in 2020. The first performance was recorded by TVP Kultura.
The musicians of Atom String Quartet are regularly invited to recording sessions of other musicians and cooperate with leading Polish and foreign artists and orchestras.